The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the updated statue on October 15.

In announcing the decision, the Vatican ... pinnacle of Greek sculpture. Greece still has high hopes for the return of the Parthenon marbles which reside in London's British Museum.

Pope Francis has decided to give the Greek Orthodox archbishop of Athens three fragments of Parthenon sculptures that have been kept in the Vatican Museums ... horse from the sculpture of horses ...

Reunification ceremony for three Parthenon fragments from the Vatican Museum ... Greek government has been formally calling for their return since 1983, arguing that Elgin and his men looted the ...

(photo: Julia Cassell/EWTN News / EWTN) The Vatican Museums this ... curator of the Greek and Roman antiquities department. “The preciousness of this sculpture is infinite because it is an ...

The inscription FCS accompanying the statue on a slab of travertine marble indicates it was struck by lightning, according to Claudia Valeri, curator of the Vatican Museums department of Greek and ...

The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek ... Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican ...

The Vatican Museums ... on the sculpture — between the research project and the actual study and restoration — has been just over two years,” said Claudia Valeri, curator of the Greek ...